Cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle: a reappraisal.
Cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle offers an attractive surgical solution to the problem of end-stage heart failure, yet it is widely regarded as a failed approach. I argue here that this is an outdated assessment. Systematic progress has been made over the last 25 years in understanding the relevant basic science. In the light of these advances we should be reconsidering the place of skeletal muscle assist in the surgical armamentarium.
Salmons
Stanley
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Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Liverpool, The Sherrington Buildings, Ashton Street, Liverpool L69 3GE, UK.
D018421:Cardiomyoplasty / Q000379:methods; D006085:Graft Survival; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000637:transplantation; D019739:Skeletal Muscle Ventricle; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods